5. Because you nursed an ancient grudge, you handed the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their distress, during their final punishment.
6. So now the Lord God proclaims: As surely as I live, I will prepare you for blood, and blood will pursue you. Because you don’t hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.
7. I will turn Mount Seir into a desolate wasteland, when I cut off from it both passerby and homecomer.
8. I will fill its highlands—your hills and your valleys, and all your ravines—with its slain. Those who are slain by the sword will fall on them.
9. I will turn you into an eternal desolation. Your cities won’t be inhabited, and you will know that I am the Lord.
10. You said, "These two nations and these two territories are mine. We will take possession of them even if the Lord is there."
11. Therefore, the Lord God proclaims: As surely as I live, I will act according to the anger and zeal you displayed when you dealt with them so hatefully. When I judge you, I will make myself known to them,
12. and you will know that I am the Lord. I’ve heard the lies and libels that you uttered against Israel’s highlands when you said, "They are laid waste. They’ve been given to us to consume."